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Pradeep Kumar

13/06/21 10:28 AM IST

PENCIL Portal

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Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Appeals to Citizens to Report Instances of Child Labour on PENCIL Portal or on Childline-1098

The World Day Against Child Labour is observed on 12th June
 every year around the world.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it. 

PENCiL portal
  • The PENCiL portal is an online platform that aims at engaging the Central Government, State Government, District, civil society and the public in eradicating child labour to achieve the target of child labor free society.
  • This portal enables the citizens to raise a complaint and report incidents of child labour through effective tracking and monitoring mechanism. Let us look in detail about the PENCiL Portal in this article.
Objective

The main objective of PENCiL Portal is to build a strong authentication mechanism for implementing and monitoring both the enforcement of the legislative provisions and effective implementation of the NCLP. It aims to facilitate convergence and provides better coordination between the Government departments and the general public.

Component of portal

  • Child Tracking System
  • Complaint Corner
  • State Government
  • National Child Labour Project and
  • Convergence.

Source: PIB

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